IBAC to address SAF and other key issues at this year’s ICAO

The International Business Aviation Council
(IBAC) has set out its agenda for the International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) Assembly later this month.

Representing the business aviation
community, the council will be raising such issues as sustainable aviation
fuels (SAF), proper implementation of market-based emissions measures, and
turboprop and helicopter safety at the 40th gathering of the Assembly.

While the Assembly is expected to focus on
global air navigation, safety, and security plans, of priority to IBAC will be
the promotion of recent business aviation activities surrounding SAF, according
to the organisation’s director general Kurt Edwards.

IBAC plans to stress its use as a key tool
in mitigating carbon emissions and urge support for policies that would
incentivise production and consumption, he said.

Along those lines, IBAC is joining broader
aviation industry groups in stressing the importance of moving ahead with the
Carbon Offsetting and Reductions Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)
program as a global approach and avoiding double charging for emissions.

Other issues to be raised by IBAC are supersonic
noise and emissions standards, turboprop safety and helicopter air traffic
management requirements.